Mbéna
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mbéna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- TZTanzania≈1 in 3.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- CMCameroon≈1 in 18K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 99K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 33 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mbena in TZ Tanzania, ZA South Africa, FR France and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mbéna counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | #192 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Mbena | 25 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Mbena | 6 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 125K | — | Mbena | 3 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 99K | — | Mbena | 6 |
| FR France | — | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 3.7M | — | Mbena | 33 |
| BE Belgium | — | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | Mbena | 5 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Mbéna a male or female name?
- Mbéna is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Mbéna have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Mbéna in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mbena.
- How common is the name Mbéna?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 1 people named Mbéna in 2008, about 1 in 12 million residents.
- How common is Mbéna compared with other names?
- In Tanzania, Mbéna is the 192nd most common surname of 112,969 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mbéna?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mb%C3%A9naThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mbéna” — the 192nd most common surname in Tanzania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.